{"id":53076,"date":"2018-08-14T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=53076"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T17:23:00","slug":"met-instructional-designer-wins-olc-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/met-instructional-designer-wins-olc-award\/","title":{"rendered":"MET Instructional Designer Wins Online Learning Consortium Effective Practices Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/MITN-OLCNASH2018.jpg\" alt=\"Fawn Thompson accepts award at OLC Innovate Conference\" width=\"755\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53077\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan College Senior Instructional Designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/online\/profile\/fawn-thompson\/\"><strong>Fawn Thompson<\/strong><\/a> received an <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelearningconsortium.org\/about\/2018-olc-effective-practice-award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Effective Practices Award from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC)<\/a>, the leading professional online learning collaborative devoted the advancement of high-quality, innovative digital educational experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognized Ms. Thompson\u2019s peer review method to course design approaches, an initiative that was adopted by the entire instructional design team in MET\u2019s Office of Distance Education. The method provides MET\u2019s instructional design professionals with an opportunity to meet challenges, improve accessibility, promote collaboration, and expand expertise in online course design.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Thompson accepted her award at the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelearningconsortium.org\/attend-2018\/innovate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OLC Innovate Conference<\/a> in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the award <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelearningconsortium.org\/about\/2018-olc-effective-practice-award-winners-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan College Senior Instructional Designer Fawn Thompson received an Effective Practices Award from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), the leading professional online learning collaborative devoted the advancement of high-quality, innovative digital educational experiences. The award recognized Ms. Thompson\u2019s peer review method to course design approaches, an initiative that was adopted by the entire instructional design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,97,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65517,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53076\/revisions\/65517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}